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The 10-year Treasury yield is getting dangerously close to 3 percent, a level that some say will set off serious alarm bells for some stock investors. While the entire Treasury market is moving, the 10-year is the benchmark, the rate most widely watched by investors and the one tied to a whole range of business…

It's a bad sign if an index has too many large cap stocks from one sector, said Bill Smead, CEO and chief investment officer of Smead Capital Management. "The excesses of this bull market are in the glam techs," Smead said on CNBC's "Closing Bell," referring to names like Amazon, Tesla and Netflix. Currently, 25…

The Trump administration is considering new sanctions against Russia in response to election meddling and a devastating cyber attack last year, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday, pushing back against criticism that it has been slow to act. Both Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress, which nearly unanimously passed a new sanctions bill against…

The Olympic Village is where athletes and their teams stay during the games. Technically, there are two Olympic villages this year: Athletes participating in snow events are staying at the Pyeongchang village, while athletes playing ice sports are staying at Gangneung.

Patrick Brown, the former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, is running to be leader again, less than a month after resigning the post over allegations of sexual misconduct. Toronto lawyer Hartley Lefton, who chairs the party committee in charge of the leadership race rules, confirmed Brown's candidacy on Wednesday. Brown stepped down in…

CLOSE Twitter revealed to congress that Russian bots had retweeted President Trump hundreds of thousands of times between September 1st and November 15th of 2016. For more on the story here is Zachary Devita. Buzz60 Image copyright Atsushi Nakamichi for Twitter, Inc. (Photo: The Motley Fool) SAN FRANCISCO — Conservative Twitter users raged against the social media…

CLOSE The Florida House of Representatives declared pornography a public health risk, just minutes after rejecting a motion to consider a bill that would ban assault rifles. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story. Buzz60 Sheryl Acquarola, a 16-year-old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of…